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• fritterware n. An excess of capability that serves no productive end.
  The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink)...
• window shopping: [US Geological Survey] n. Among users of {WIMP environment}s like {X} or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• macdink: /mak'dink/ [from the Apple Macintosh, which is said to encourage such behavior] vt.
  To make many incremental and unnecessary cosmetic changes to a program or file....
• window shopping n. [US Geological Survey] Among users of WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• bathtub curve: n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time
  initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it `tires out'....
• I didn't change anything!: interj. An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test.
  The {canonical} reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?...
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• deadlock: n. 1. [techspeak] A situation wherein two or more processes are unable to proceed because each is waiting for one of the others to do something.
  A common example is a program communicating to a server, which may find itself waiting for output from the server before sending anything more to it, while the server is similarly waiting for more input from the controlling program before outputting anything....
• diddle: 1. vt. To work with or modify in a not particularly serious manner.
  I diddled a copy of {ADVENT} so it didn't double-space all the time....